From Yellow-Legged Frogs to Chickpeas: Graduate Students Receive Funding for Wide Range of Microbiome Research Topics

The endangered mountain yellow-legged frog peers up from an alpine pond. Sonia Ghose, a graduate student in the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology, is looking at the skin microbiome of yellow-legged frogs and the role it may play in protecting the animals from fungal infections that have contributing to amphibian declines around the globe. (Credit: Isaac Chellman/National Park Service)

By Jose Franco

August 26, 2019

The UC Davis Microbiome Special Research Program is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 Microbiome Graduate Research Award. A total of fifteen graduate students were selected for the award out of thirty-six applications. Each awarded proposal will receive $1,000 to help with costs related to their microbiome research.

The Microbiome Graduate Research Award was designed to support graduate students with costs associated with their microbiome research such as core services, sequencing, microbiome data analysis, publication costs or travel.

The application process demonstrated the various areas of microbiome research at UC Davis and ranged in diverse applicant backgrounds from plant pathology, entomology/nematology and animal science to applicants from anthropology, computer science, nutrition and psychology.